​Greetings from the Northwestern University Transportation Library, where Rachel just showed me the original!

‘Natural gas’ prices in the EU have shot up ~40% in a day on news that Qatar is ceasing liquid ‘natural’ gas production at the world’s largest plant. In related news, sunlight and wind remain free.

There is a guitar riff on the second song of Twisted Teens’ “Blame The Clown” that is *exactly* the same as another song I like and (1) I can’t figure it out and (2) AI is totally unable to help. If I’d just bought the dang CD of the earlier album, I would not be losing my mind right now.

If Metro can do this, BART should be able to too! Station retail is one of the things I worked on for many years as a BART director but never accomplished. I think we would have made progress without the pandemic. After the Connect Bay Area measure passes, I hope BART brings back station retail.

Nice work by CM Katy Yaroslavsky to get coffee kiosks in all the new Metro D Line stations opening in May! cdn.mc-weblink.sg-mktg.com/weblink/MTc3...

It’s insane this is legal. People around Trump are profiting off war and death. I’m introducing legislation ASAP to ban this.

If America still had the rule of law, this would be the easiest prosecution ever, but we all know absolutely nothing will happen.

impeach

The absolute diminution of Congress as an institution under the current GOP leadership is breathtaking and scandalous. Abdicated war powers, abdicated spending powers. And all in the apparent bet the tables won’t be turned onto the Republicans the next time Democrats have unified control.

OH: a Surfliner passenger talking about the decision to take whether to take the 7:10 or 8:10 southbound from LAUS to San Diego this morning. Love it when a plan comes together. lfportal.nctd.org/weblink/0/ed...

One reason to be excited about LA's upside as a transit city is were 35 years and 100 miles into rebuilding the rail system and we're about to open the most important line in the entire system!

Union Station to LACMA in 20 minutes, starting May 8th!

UPDATED story with response from @transitmatters.bsky.social on @mbta.com's latest regional rail electrification plans: mass.streetsblog.org/2026/02/25/m...

The D Line Extension to Wilshire/La Brea, Wilshire/Fairfax and Wilshire/La Cienega opens...

Metro D Line subway extension to Beverly Hills will open on Friday May 8 2026. Four new miles of heavy rail subway. Three new stations on Wilshire: La Brea, Fairfax, La Cienega. Ride from Beverly Hills to DTLA in 20 minutes!

crazy to me that no one at youtube or google is ever even, like, asked about this stuff anymore, let alone pushed to take responsibility. regardless of whether a PRMC/moral majority-type campaign would be a good idea, is the respectable center really so anemic/captured that it won't even try?

It Only Tuesday https://theonion.com/it-only-tuesday-1819569397/

I enjoyed this interesting piece about the worst intersections in Los Angeles! Also noted that at the beginning of the piece -- which describes how land use and design choices lead to more traffic and crashes -- the story refers to collisions as "accidents." www.latimes.com/california/l...

Lol they're not your friends, Kash. And you can't use federal resources—including the FBI's $62M private jet—to go on a taxpayer-funded Olympic getaway & locker room bender. Adding it to the evidence file for our investigation, @raskin.house.gov.

Even more evidence that building new housing decreases rents: Researchers tracked the residents of a newly built luxury condo building and found that they freed up less expensive apartments nearby. papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

they need to import this to the Stanley Cup playoffs, watching hockey players be handed stuffed animals while they seethe is the new funniest thing in the world

every sunday should start with a do or die hockey game between world class players with everything on the line

mfw i’m up at 6 am on a sunday for a hockey game

Love to see our state legislators taking transit to the CA Dem Convention! 🚃🚃🚃 Taking BART back home tonight, I happened to run into a few different friends at the station, made some new connections between organizers. #TogetherWeWin

According to @metrolosangeles.bsky.social Program Management Project Status Report for February, the D Line (formerly called Purple Line) Extension Section 1 from Wilshire/Western to Wilshire/La Cienega is now expected to open in Spring 2026! Hopefully in April or May? We shall see!! 🙏🏽🚇🏙️

In 1989 there was buzz behind creating a "Bicycle Freeway" in Westwood that even Mayor Bradley endorsed. It proposed 17-foot-high elevated "veloways" crossing Wilshire & the 405 into Brentwood & Sawtelle. Cost: $7 million. LADOT said it would infringe on street/fwy improvements.

Congrats to BART rider and Oakland legend Alysa Liu on winning a gold medal at the Olympics and making the Bay Area proud!

January average weekday ridership was 893,420 boardings. Ridership slightly down from last January: bus -5.4%, rail +1.0%. [Not mentioned: looks like continued ICE terror still reducing overall ridership]

put it in the Louvre

Please expand the PWHL to LA I will buy season tickets let’s gooo!!

The US v CAN women's hockey rivalry is one of the best in sports.

MEGAN KELLER WITH A DIRTY DRAG MOVE AND A GOLD MEDAL WINNING GOAL 🇺🇸 🇺🇸 🇺🇸 🇺🇸

I just looked it up out of curiosity and it would take 2 and a half hours on public transit to get from Sylmar (northernmost neighborhood of the City of Los Angeles) to San Pedro (southernmost point).

State budget trailer bills for the $590 million state loan to four Bay Area transit agencies (including BART) are eligible for floor votes today. BART would use loan funds only if a November transit funding ballot measure is successful or another reliable source of funding is provided to BART.

If the Connect Bay Area measure fails, BART would slash service by 63% in January 2027: Reduced base schedule: 3 lines with 2 trains per hour, resulting in 240% more transfers NO evening service, service ending at 9 pm Close 10 lowest ridership stations...

The left tried for decades to pass green energy subsidies, passed them, the subsidies worked, and now literally the entire planet's electricity grid is going to convert to solar+battery. It just doesn't feel like "tech" because it mostly produces kinda boring blue collar jobs instead of billionaires

Extrajudicial killings have become the norm for this Administration. From shooting our own citizens in Minneapolis to these lawless killings in international waters. We must make sure that Hegseth & those who ordered these murders are held accountable.

Want to make this happen? Call into the Capitol Board Meeting tomorrow at 10 to support electrification, the 3rd track to Roseville, and more Sac regional service. actionnetwork.org/letters/supp...

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Nearly half of L.A County’s pavement may be unnecessary, new map finds. Via Meg Tanaka. www.latimes.com/environment/...

Hotel guests are fleeing early because of the snowstorm. Traffic to the Bay Area and Reno is jammed due to gridlock, plows and crashes. Drivers are clearing snow off windshields and having to buy tire chains. But not us. Our Amtrak is on time. We'll relax in the dining car. The smart way to go.

Idly wondering, as the 3 D line sections spin up this year and next, if there will be any EIFD conversation in Santa Monica for the final four stations. They're already environmentally cleared (they were studied in the FEIR), and in today's dollars would probably cost, I dunno, 8B?

Who’d have thought that by threatening to annex Canada, Trump would take Canada’s car market from American companies and give it to China.

2.5 years into driving an EV and the thought of buying another gas powered car is so fucking preposterous. Zero zero zero chance.

The final draft of our party platform has big improvements in housing and city planning policy, calling for more homes near jobs & transit and reducing fees & other barriers to new homes. We will be voting on adopting the new platform this coming weekend at the CA Dem convention in San Francisco. 2/

California's main grid has produced more electricity from solar (110 GWh/d) than fossil gas (106 GWh/d) during the first 45 days of 2025 And it's WINTER Gas is down 39% vs '25 & 55% vs '23 WWS has met >100% of demand for parts of 25 out of 45 days in '25 (vs 17/45 days in '24)

Gathering storm clouds create a striking backdrop for Hollister Peak, viewed from Los Osos. ☁️

It’s so funny to think about the fact that there’s people out there deferring every life decision to this

‘It’s time’: California leaders unveil biggest crackdown on drunk drivers in decades laist.com/news/politic...

Baldwin Hills 1, LosAngeles County, CA 🗺34.0053, -118.3631 🧭51° ⛰489 ft https://ops.alertcalifornia.org/cam-console/1805